'Practically exploding with love, life and flavour' - Louise Kennedy
'Bitingly inventive, written with humour and heart' - Elizabeth Day
'A hauntingly evocative journey through the realms of pain, pleasure and the power of food' - Nigella Lawson
A food story to binge. A ghost story to devour. A love story to savour.
When dead-end dishwasher Kostya discovers the ability to summon spirits through the food he cooks, he embarks on a journey to open a New York City restaurant that serves closure - something he's craved for as long as he can remember.
There are just three problems:
- Kostya has some ghosts of his own.
- His advancing menu of spirit cuisine is threatening the stability of the Afterlife itself.
- He's falling in love with Maura, a party psychic with her own secret connection to the Afterlife - who also happens to be the one person who knows he must be stopped.
A bittersweet cocktail of humour and heart, Aftertaste is an imaginative odyssey through food and love, life and death: the things that sustain us, connect us, transport us, and remind us who we are.
Fiction: general and literary
Paperback
Daria Lavelle
400 pages
H: 232mm W: 152mm Spine: 32mm
Weight: 487 grams